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"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."
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"My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling."
"It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson."
"And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable."
"Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling."
"Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years."
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"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."
"Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance."
"Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing."
"The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose."
"There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating."
"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."
"I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene."
"When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago."
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